THE NEW YORKER INDOOR. POLO Wznners of tIZJ] Open -Half Football-A Word for the Ponies F OR the past two years many a close fol- lower of indoor polo has said with a knowing air t hat absolutely any combination of players built around Winston Guest and hand- icapped at four or five goals would be invincible in the Open. The finals last Saturday show- ed how wrong they all were. Los Nanduces, playing Cyril Harrison (handicapped at eight goals), Gerry Smith (at nine goals), and Lieutenant McDonald Jones (also at nine), won the ti tle from the Optimists with a score of 8-5. Los Nanduces' victory can be at- tributed to the really brilliant play of Smith and Harrison, their two for- wards, who carried the attack to the Optimists at all times and drove both Winston Guest and young Iglehart from offensive to defensive. The game opened with a first-rate exhibition of Guest's solo play. His knack of fenc- ing with the mallets of his opponents and working the ball from a scrimmage in to the clear soon won three goals for the Optimists. Los N anduces, playing as a well-knit team, succeeded in scor- ing only once, but the Optimists had a sudden outbreak of fouls and by half- time the score was tied. The opening of the second half saw Los Nanduces at top form and in spite of the desperate efforts of Winston Guest they man- aged to keep the ball deep in the Optimists' territory. In the final peri- od, after three fouls had been called against Los Nanduces, the game ap- peared to be anybody's until] ones made a spectacular shot from midfi eld in to the Optimists' goal. Smith and Har- rison soon drove in two more, and so the Open Champions of 1929 and 1930 passed into defeat and a new team that had been formed to beat them closed its season glorIously. T HE Open, in fact, put on some thoroughly good shows. Its semi- final between Yale and Los N anduces was one of the best games of the tour- nament, and it received its full due of 83 :i o(: l:. ,,: ::ii.Z "':'<' ' (:::" ,.:. t I ",, ,v,...""..., '(y,,_,v, ."..,..........,.,..'.... _m .." "_ '- ., ; , t , k" t: ':',: ::' <<, ll j :': 1. ' , : , , ' : : " " :, ' . '.:':"1. "'!: ;r ,:," ". ii, i;C:) :: r . , ':'.. : , .. 't Ideally located on Fifth , I ' Avenue at the entrance to Central Park, The Plaza and The Savoy- Plaza offer the highest standards of hospitality · · · everything to make your visit an enjoyabL_ one. < ::J ..: / :;;'. 1 "", ,.' ',jt.\. '. -}%t ':.l .. .,.... * * * : f '1: : iii:i Reservations for the N a- tional Hotel of Cuba, Ha- vana, may be made at The Plaza and The Savoy- Plaza, New York, and at the Copley-Plaza, Boston :"':". ""_ ....h'" .$e fflte PL Z eu.r !I07 L S VOy- PL Z J//è{I/!Jork HENRY A. ROST President HOTEL OF D 1ST I n CT Ion FRED STERRY President JOHN DOWEN Manager . - (Sf) ,........" ",--- r OFr , rr Ñ , ,," G , ay2 ). t' , ( , ( \. \. \. , Q \... '41v '- 0 '- . ) ) /} G ./ . .../ . . 4 . '.. ",-,. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD · FRANCt. ../ '- "'-'-"'...........-..........-""-""" 57 Broadway, New York, Telephone BOwling Green 9-3880, or your local agent